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beta.usgs.gov

United States Geological Survey

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beta.usgs.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beta.usgs.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

beta.usgs.gov

212 ms

all_combined.css

331 ms

usgs_header_bg.png

731 ms

usgs_footer_bg.png

743 ms

texgyreheros-regular-webfont.woff

432 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Beta.usgs.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) belongs to the original domain Beta.usgs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.9 kB (87%)

Content Size

210.0 kB

After Optimization

27.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Beta.usgs.gov main page is 210.0 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 207.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 882 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 794 B

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 882 B or 53% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Beta Usgs images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 182.0 kB

  • Original 207.0 kB
  • After minification 147.2 kB
  • After compression 25.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Beta.usgs.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beta Usgs. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

beta.usgs.gov SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Beta.usgs.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Beta.usgs.gov main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Beta Usgs. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: